whowillmourn: (>:[ opposing forces)
Mayerling ([personal profile] whowillmourn) wrote in [community profile] folkooc 2023-09-10 02:22 am (UTC)

Sharon's emotions have long been plain, the twitching of her lips accompanied by the change in her breathing, the temperature of her skin, the way her heart beats in her chest, and all the other myriad physical signs that others may not be sensitive enough to pick up yet are plain to him and to his senses. Yet that knowledge differs greatly from feeling her emotions within his own, no longer separate but intertwined. Like quantum physics, the one cannot be separated from the other, not entirely, not even as Mayerling knows his feelings as he has known them for thousands of years (even when he cannot entirely control them), not even when he can observe hers and identify the way she burns brightly within him. No, there's something else, something more now. Some might even say it's better than sex, he muses and jokes to himself.

"Thank you," Mayerling says seriously. Being bitten can itself be tempting and enjoyable when the vampire wishes to make it so. There are all sorts of reasons to find it an irresistible temptation, and Mayerling does not blame those he's loved who wanted it for wanting it. They have, to a one, not been afraid of him, not had that visceral fear of vampires and the bite that most humans on the Frontier have. That gone, they had their reasons. Sharon, too, could want it one day, could have her reasons, yet no matter what they could be, Mayerling appreciates her promise not to ask. Temptation grows stronger when the one he loves and wants so adamantly asks or even begs him for it. It is so much harder to find reason to resist.

"It shall always be a part of who I am, Sharon. As much as I remember the time Johan spent in Trench, the food he ate, all the activities you did with him," the memories make him smile, "they are someone else's memories, not mine. What you can do may be little, yet should you notice the bloodlust get stronger, helping me politely disentangle myself from any social engagements and get away from people will help." There's a reason he does not live in Epiphany.

"It's not nearly so bad here as in Trench, surrounded by blood and blood pollution."

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